F1 Mexico City Grand Prix: Max Verstappen beats Mercedes duo to pole position
Red Bull’s Verstappen secured his first-ever pole at the Autod🗹romo Hermanos Rodriguez with a pai🌸r of brilliant laps in Q3 to edge out the Mercedes pair and top qualifying for the sixth time this season.
The double world champion already held provisional pole but went even better on his final run to outpace Russell, who was left frustrated to miss out on pole by 0.304s after what he described as being a “terrible” lap.&nb💜sp;
Russell pipped Mercedes teammate Hamilton by jusꦛt 0.005s, with the seven-time world champion left on the back foot after seeing his first laptime deleted due to a track limits🍰 infringement.
Home hero 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Sergio Perez was not able to deliver the result his devoted fans hoped for as he ended up fourth, 0.353s down on his Red Bull teamm⛄ate.
168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Carlos Sainz was the highest-placed Ferrari in fifth, over half a second off the pace, while an impressive lap from 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Valtteri Bottas helped the Alfa Romeo split 🌄the Ferraris in sixth.
Behind Bottas came 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Charles Leclerc, McLaren’s 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Lando Norris and the Alpine pair of168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史: Fernando Alonso and 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Esteban Ocon, who completed the top 10.
Outgoing McLaren driver Daniel Ricciardo missed out on a spot in Q3 by just 0.053s, while Alfa Romeo’s Zhou Guanyu was 12th-quickes🌜t.
Yuki Tsunoda edged out teammate Pierre Gas꧅ly in the battle for qualifying bragging rights at AlphaTauri, with the pair taking 13th and 14th♔ ahead of the Haas of Kevin Magnussen, who will drop five positions because of an engine change.
Mick Schumacher, fighting for his F1 future at Haas, was knocked out in the first part of qualifying after seeing his fastest lap deleted for cutting ♊Turn 2.
He set exactly the same time as Aston🅰 Martin’s Sebastian Vettel, who was 17th and only behind Schumacher by virtue of compl🅰eting his lap after his compatriot.
Lance Stroll was 18th in a disappointing showing for Aston Martin, b𝐆ut the Canadian will start Sunday’s race last due to being slapped with a three-place grid penalty for causing a collision with Alonso in Austin last weekend.
The Williams pair of Alex A♑lbon and Nicholas Latifi were slowest of all in qua🐻lifying, taking 19th and 20th respectively.
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